New research from CareerBuilder, the largest online career site in the U.S., identifies a number of behaviors employers said are the biggest productivity killers in the workplace.

When asked what they consider to be key time wasters in the workplace, employers pointed to cellphones and texting as the top problems followed by gossip, the Internet, social media use, snack or smoke breaks, noisy co-workers, meetings and email. Pretty predictable. One in four workers admit spending at least one hour per workday on personal calls, emails or texts.

For you New Castle County employees, I'm guessing running multiple fantasy sports leagues from your work computer falls into the Internet category.

As part of the survey, employers also shared some real-life examples of the more unusual things they've seen employees doing when they should have been working. Here are a few:

-- Employee was caring for her pet bird that she smuggled into work

-- Employee was shaving her legs in the women's restroom

-- Employees were having a wrestling match.

-- Employee was sleeping, but claimed he was praying.

-- Employee was taking selfies in the bathroom.

-- Employee was printing off a book from the Internet.

None of those compare to some of the things I've seen around this newsroom. I'm not one to tell tales, but I've seen: table tennis matches (not me), porn searches (research only), singalongs, selfies aplenty (maybe me), pro wrestling conversations (not me), discussions of the prostitutes walking on 13 and 40 and which one you see the most (OK, I started that one), belly dancing (no, it wasn't me) and on and on.

Let's face it. Wasting time at work is sometimes the only thing that makes work bearable.